My Town Tour - Brezno, Slovakia

I’d like to invite you to a brief tour of Brezno – nice small town in the heart of Slovakia where I’m living now.

Let’s see what Wikipedia has to say about Brezno’s history:

“The place has been inhabited since prehistoric times, but the current town arose from an old Slovak settlement, next to which newly arrived German miners erected a typical square market in the early 13th century. The first written evidence of the town’s existence is dated 1265 when King Béla IV of Hungary issued a charter for the hunters from the area of Liptov allowing them to use woods around the settlement, known as Berezuno. The name is derived from the Slovak word “breza” for birch. In the nineteenth century Brezno was a typical almost purely Slovak town and was one of the centres of the Slovak national movement. Since Second World War it has developed into an industrial town.”

“According to the 2001 census, the town had 22,875 inhabitants.”

... and this is interesting info too: “Brezno is twinned with the French town of Meudon, Nový Bydžov in the Czech Republic and Ciechanów in Poland.”

Beautiful, simply beautiful! As I mentioned to you before, I was lucky enough to visit Slovakia a couple of years ago. My wife and I had such a great time there. We were visiting friends in Komarno and from there we visited Bojnice, the hot springs in Ružomberok, Vlkolinec, Banska Stiavnica and of course, we drove through the Tatras. Although we didn’t visit Brezno we were pretty close at Banska Bystrica. We can’t wait to go back, if only for the duck dinners! :) Next time we’ll drop by for a visit. ;)

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Very beautiful typical of Easterm European countries well preserved and friendly peole there too I have not been that far east but I lived in germany for five years and have been around Italy Venice Austria Salsburg because of my interest in Mozart etc .Thanks for hosting this site .I take my hat off to you your a reall gentleman God bless Martin and best wishes from Scotland to your your family and all my new friends here on the jock site.Alistair

This is pretty cool, a travelogue. Jean Marc and Martin both live in very attractive places. As for me, I live in a cookie cutter suburban neighborhood, so it’s really neat to see more appealing locales.

Very beautiful place to live, Martin. With such a pleasant place to live, no wonder you do such a nice job with this website. We appreciate you. I guess Zagreb is the closest I’ve gotten to your town, although it’s not as nice. And not that close. Thanks for the post.